CONFESSIONS OF A POP COUTURE ADDICT TRAPPED IN ARMY

Tuesday, March 29, 2005

soccer fun?

ok short blog entry cos Weide's waiting for me to go back to bunk... where someone is there probably reading his fantasy dragonish book again.. =) and God isn't very nice sometimes... why the HELL put me in the same grouping with him for the Finale Ex?

-_-

aniwez let's see.. played soccer on mon, then AGAIN on tues.. my legs are tired shitless... but well.. it DOES connect... now i realise why soccer is so addictive in a "social" sense, cos it does bond in some way lah... which is why someone stands out in such STARK contrast with his whitish Admin Kit skulking around whilst the rest of us are sweating it out...

Weide's chasing me liao... better go..

frAnk

Sunday, March 27, 2005

cashflow problems

hmmm.. i've been trying to account for my expenditure today after talking to my cousin about my salary and the ridiculous, insane idea of me being the SOLE income for my household of 5 people with my meagre $1000+... cos well..

1. my parents are retired
2. my second sis went to Japan to do mission work (ZERO income)
3. my eldest sis now wants to take no-pay leave to concentrate on her studies on ergonomics and the design of products (which honestly sounds interesting - might consider taking it)

which means, i might as well start applying for family aid liao, with my household income being $1000 odd...

-_-...

ok.. so back to the expenditure accounting... cos well, i realised that within 17 days... i have spent a whopping $1000... and i SWEAR i din go shopping or like frolicking around Zara or Topman or something....

so gee..

$400 for the Zen Micro (to celebrate my payrise =))
$300 for contributions to the household (my mom mandates it)
arnd $50 till now for offerings..

which leaves $250 unaccounted for...

$10 for every lan session, so around $10 x 4 = $40
meals for weekends mostly at fast food, so at most $10 per session? $10 x 8 = $80
then the fiske college guide which costs me $34

-_-

ok.. so i guess that accounts for most stuff... sheesh.. and i thought maybe there was some credit card scam ala becky bloomwood's secret desire...

sian.. so fast spend money... very heart pain... plus i haven't even gone for a shopping spree (or any semblance of it) recently!

speaking of shopping... saw a few nice books at times ps that i wanted to buy, something abt Atlantis and some Geographer's Treasure thingy...

(the irritating thing is all these books keep using "DA VINCI CODE-ESQUE" to desperately pimp their goods at your face and try to ride of da vinci code's success -- but well.. I'm hooked as well)

but then.. well.. look at my bookshelf



what can i say? err... well.. of them, I haven't touched blowfly as well as assasini.. and i flipped the first few pages of Alexander dreaming of Angelina Jolie acting as the Queen before i tossed it back to the shelf -_-

so much for buying books...

oh well.. i NEED to stop procrastinating and start mugging for Log AOS exam liao... sure dun wanna fail...

so well, more snippets or my disorganized room..



the most adorably cute bear at the top is called snuffles.. or snuffie =)



time for room cleaning soon? nah...

Saturday, March 26, 2005

theatre in which God's glory is manifested

ok.. so back to the original topic i was going to talk about (before i got rudely interrupted by that displeasing reply)

and it's sad... cos i feel slightly hypocritical writing something about Christianity right after I blast someone in a previous entry...

sigh... just like how i feel when i try to bring someone in my course to church

and that someone happens to be a person i keep bitching to about so-and-so asking so many darn questions about his oh-so-precious engineer assets and so on...

sigh... i'm a terrible example ain't it?

trying to change lah... dunno what's happenin'.. like really drifting apart from God.. and in return it's affecting my relationships with friends, family and my own life.. perhaps it's the reason why I'm feeling so sian of things, like darn meaningless...

and to think my motto this year is to be a theatre in which God's glory can be fully manifested... nice words, tough actions to follow it up.. and i ain't getting anywhere near like this...

so how? sometimes when u look at the person's blog, u can see alot about the person.. like when i read Alvin's blog, it's all like cheery and flowery and well.. reflecting a person at peace with himself and close to God...

and then i look at my blog...

yeah.. "bitchfest" springs to mind... then "no life" accompanies

sigh....

honestly it's tough...and i really pray that i can reconnect and reestablish this close relationship I had with God.. like that in JC2 like that... (largely thanks to Ryan)

and well.. everyone, tmr's Easter Day.. it's perhaps the most important day for all christians (contrary to you all thinking it was Christmas)

why?

because it affirms our belief in Christ.. because on this day, Jesus Christ rose from the dead... HE triumped over death and appeared before his disciples...

and well, if u are wondering about the significance of good friday, well..

i think of good friday as a testament of God's love for us, and the great sacrifice for us...

imagine.. we are so darn unlikeable and horrid, with so many character flaws (like my propensity for bitching and rumouring), and well.. the people at his time even had it out for him and put him to death, yet because He so loved us, He was willing to endure the pain, the humiliation, and the death.. to bridge the gap between God and man... and give us a glimmer of hope to be with God for eternity..

if only we believe...

it's that simple!

so well...
pray for me people..
and well, pray for my ailing fellowship at church...
pray that the evangelistical event tmr will be good (even though i was too 'ham' to ask anyone again.. always giving excuses.. sigh)
those who read this in time and wanna come, it's at Grace Church, along Queen Street...just msg me...

ok.. that's all..
frank

no comments...

i honestly had zero inspiration to write at all these few days.. until i chanced upon someone's blog and saw this comment, viz:-

"on Saturday, March 19th, bayzone said

frank is damn wierd character. bitches, sore loser, doesnt admit losing.
blogs for others to read."


hello? how did i offend u?

--edited out--

no comments...

Friday, March 25, 2005

you don't miss the water (until the well runs dry)

well well... so BLOC seems to be winding to a close liao... dunno why I still have some reservations for returning to my camp... due to the bad experience for the first week? the screwed up admin? i dunno.. but whatever it is.. i think i'm mostly scaring myself lah

and well.. it's sad... and ironic ain't it? you only start being quite chummy with pals at a course when the course starts to wind down... happened at OCS... now it's happening again..

and well.. when coursemates for 6 weeks finally bid farewell.. is it really farewell? which relationships will last (if any) and which wouldn't?

honestly, the answer can be very surprising and unexpected... just like my OCS pals.. only like 2 months odd leh.. new batch going to commission.. yet like I've completely forgotten some people liao... the rest? you try to reconnect, bond again and maintain the relationship but well.. it never feels the same does it?

and well... it's wierd... during course time u see the same faces until u kena sick, so u wouldn't want to go out with them during the weekends... and of course you take for granted that they'll be around always... then when you separate, you suddenly realise you miss the unique moments you've had, the people you would just drag to a corner to talk cock to or just sip milo together at the kitchenette... but well, now mostly, they're too busy for you... so well... drift away...

so where does things stand now? 2 weeks more to another separation, just grab hold of the moments and cherish lah.. i dunno why some people would rather stonewall themselves using their creative zen micro and their fantasy storybooks and not connect... why some people would rather push his point forward and risk hurting other people's feelings... but well.. i hope i'll not be like that...

so.. to those at my course.. and read my blog (hehe)... thanks for being great friends.. and for making those unbearably boring moments less boring, either by pushing me to play soccer, (believe me.. it took me a huge leap of "faith" esp on tues nite to just don PT kit and join you all)

or just tolerating with my nonsense and prima donna-ish attitude at times

or even being nice enough to go play dotA even though you didn't know how to play at all...

and well.. since y'all know what an insufferable sentimentalist i am, hehe.. dun mind me if i nag too much abt you all to go meet up... =)

frAnk

"there's never a time too BUSY to see your friends, it's priority that matters"

wishing for something good

you know how sometimes it is when you watch a show that has one of your favourite stars acting in it?

and then you walk out after 2 hours trying to convince yourself that it was good when you probable would have dissed it off were it acted by anyone else?

well.. that's how i feel about Miss Congeniality 2... Sandra Bullock IS running out of steam...



I mean, the show was so... blah.. it's like a normal dream a person makes at night... and well, the plot was like paper-thin with little exploration space for Sandra herself... which is honestly very sad...because there was potential... a story about how a woman who's given her heart out and feels that finally someone is accepting her for who she is, then suddenly kena rejected, how she reacts and so on...

and well.. going all materialistic and pretty isn't something one would expect... it's too fake and plastic liao... too sudden... and well, even the unmasking of her insecurities doesn't really have that impact or what... so honestly? acting and plot wise... pretty disappointing..

PLEASE work harder Sandra Bullock...

frAnk

Sunday, March 20, 2005

from hero to zero

male chauvinism on The Apprentice 3 and the female backlash

names parents give themselves

recently, my parents have been wracking their brains to come up with nice christian names for themselves, presumably so that when they go china for tentmaking, they'll be more easily remembered. (which honestly makes me go "huh?")

and don't think finding a name is an easy task... cos these were the rules my parents laid down..

1. names must be easily read, such that they can pronounce it, and then people can pronounce it as well, so names like Yvette, Ivana(my mum said it sounded like Iguana), Genevieve were out... pity though...

2. names must not remind us of undesirable people. Now THIS created alot of problems, cos it eliminated whole hordes of names viz... Moses(fat), Abigail(you know who), Edwin(hahaha), Babara(HAHAHA), Jacob, Rebecca, Andy, Ken(as in Barbie and Ken), Maria, Lucy and so on...

3. names must not be of close relatives or friends... so out goes Matthew, John(my dad desperately wanted that), Chrystal, Rupert(heehee), Samuel, Ben and so on..

4. names must not be too common... out goes Tom, Dick or Harry... as well as the female counterparts

5. names must NOT form something derogatory when matched with the surname... dun geddit? hmmm.. try PAUL CHAN (bankrupt in chinese)

6. names must be agreed by everyone... which bascially eliminates most of the rest of the names like James, Julie and so on... sheesh

wadeva... after thinking for quite awhile.. i think the best is...

for my mom...

RENEE, meaning reborn

for my dad...

DYLAN, meaning faithful

but OF COURSE, that contradicts with rule 1 liao cos my mum cannot read renee and reads it as running after awhile and my dad can't get dylan..

sheesh

aniwez, just for fun, here are the meaning of some names :-

Edwin - Prosperous Friend (HAHA)
Edgar - Great Spearman (??!?)
Alvin - Noble Friend
Jeremy = Jeremiah - God Will Uplift (Hebrew)
Jack = John (?!) - God is Merciful
Luke = Lucus - Light
Royce - King's Son (there's no royston)

fraNk (fReE)

Saturday, March 19, 2005

sweet ending

there's something incredily sweet and tear-jerking about ugly people who are darn nice and finally getting the guy/gal of her/his dreams...

err.. i mean Hao Meili...

i thought the part where she kept trying to hint to Simon the night before she left was just so touching.. and sweet... yet heart wrenching

and of course when they got together it was darn sweet lah

much better than how Meide had a 180 degrees change in personality and suddenly in the last ep become a new person like dat and get together with ZhengXi... she should have been dumped =)

oh well..

aniwez.. found a new place to eat todae (courtesy of my dad)

it's @ 2nd floor of raffles city, called Aiwo... and it has a buffet selection of "healthy" food for $17.80... served Sakae-Sushi wise... which is kinda cool, chic and klatzy... most of the food was yummy too, and for once i din feel guilty eating more =)

cos no rice summore, just let u choose from 14 dishes and give u healthy but delicious soup and appetizer... yummy! (somewhat like the atkins diet i think)

atmosphere also kewl and klazzy. which makes me quite sure that this restaurant targets the middle-rich people, the kewl, youngish working pple... cos yeah.. their clientele was also like that...

the only drawback? it is pretty expensive lah... so.. not advisable to come back too often =)

oh well.. nothing in the world's perfect

fraNK

Thursday, March 17, 2005

arrgrh! i've been disfigured!!!!

oh GAWD.. is it divine retribution? is it voodoo?

my lips have swollen such that it is splotchy and red and ABSOLUTELY GROSS... i thought it was just heatiness initially but it's not turning out well.. OH NO...

PLEASE GOD CURE ME!!!

it's so pai-seh i dun even wanna return back to camp liao.. sheesh.. why issit like that?!!

i've tried eating gui-ling gao, then chin-chao then even applying lip balm BUT nothing is working.. arggh!!!

.... -_-

today is a TERRIBLE TERRIBLE DAY...

i have terrible studying/presenting fatigue...

i have swollen lips...

i honestly dunno what is happening...have i been poisoned?!?

OH MY GAWD...

frANk

Wednesday, March 16, 2005

get off our papers, slyvestre!

so Slyvestre and maia had a Britney-esque wedding then Slyvestre regrets and breaks it off, saying it's a rash decision. Now he comes out and says marry is not ruled out and blah blah. wadever.

continue, and you'll HONESTLY be a bigger media-whore than Britney and Rob&Amber combined. get OFF our newspapers...

and here comes my main topic of dissention..

if there is one type of person that honestly pisses me off to no end now, it is a person who HONESTLY DOES NOT KNOW HOW TO SHUT UP.

HONESTLY?? You trying to be DS issit? What's the point of telling us "points of information" when they're merely reinterrations of the SAME fact that was mentioned a few minutes ago?

and STOP using "A LAST QUESTION" in vain, cos you always seem to have another ridiculous, unrelated question to fling at us and drag our time even when it;s nearing 6... it's always like "Oh one question"... then "Err.. another question", then "IF u don't mind me asking"

ERR... WE DO. Honestly, i think i rolled my eyes for a record number of times today and he still doesn't get it. -_-

But i think the real coup de grace is when someone else is presenting, and he STALKS UP and then goes to say "I think I must highlight this line to make the case clearer to everyone -- this means actually blah blah"...

wow, i tell you, the shocked look on most of our faces (the rest were asleep) was very telling lor... It's like really assuming to be DS liao or something, and just disrupting a person's presentation completely... -_- Honestly, I was supremely shocked and i think the person was pretty pissed lor...

and yeah.. you can guess, during MY presentation, he had the AUDACITY to come up to the chart I had previosuly explained, and say "I think I can offer a better summary"...

which prodded Weide to say, "I never knew XX was co-presenting with you as well"...

gosh.. some people honestly have no sense of apropriety...

ok.. to clarify, it's not that I don't encourage questions or what, but what really pisses me off is that :-

1. STOP asking 'DUH' questions and ESPECIALLY questions that have been answered like a few minutes ago liao! AND STOP GIVING US points of information, that are pretty much irrelevent to the topic!

2. STOP trying to sumamrize this and summarize that for us, when 'duh!', it is pretty much summarized liao.. STOP showing your stupidity lah! It's like staring at a simple chart and trying to summarize it further... GAWD... enough is enough

stop trying to gain brownie points by acting so 'on' or what, cos honestly, you are rubbing people off the complete wrong way.. you are frustrating people with your seemingly 'on' but actually 'stupid' questions.. so please...STOP

hmm.. getting chased out of the mess liao.. another time lah..

frAnk

Sunday, March 13, 2005

HSBC treetop walk

aniwez this is one day old...

so it starts with me complaining that there's nothing to do in Singapore lest shopping, eating, movie-ing and lanning...

problem is,

1. I refuse to eat cos i will get fat, and already im looking chubbier liao.. SHEESH

2. I am already accused of being shopaholic liao still go and shop? That's like playing with fire lor.. already I'm itching to buy Oakley glasses and a new PC game like Battle For Middle Earth.. and honestly, shopping with most guys is so NOT FUN and so wierd..

3. there are only so many movies u can possibly have an interest to watch.. and there's something called movie-fatigue too... and plus.. there's always the possibility u pay $8.50 and end up watching a shitty show, like say "The Twins Effect"

4. playing lan gets others sick.. somehow.. and well, it pisses others off as well (read politics of gaming)

SO... upon my incessant whining, my parents suggest i get my frens to go walk the HSBC tree top walk, or like play tennis or so on.. (are they hinting something about the need to exercise?)

... and well.. i think it's a good idea. so i bravely msg Alvin and Jack (trying out my luck)...

and well.. the reply from Alvin is,

"Haha.. You're most amusing.. Tree top walk.. You sure you not running a fever? :p my mom wants lunch.. I mite haf to shift to dinner... :p"


-_-... ok.. so apparently healthy exercise is a joke.. ok fine...

and Jack is busy as usual, and puts things on hold...

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Undeterred, I instead get my parents to walk with me on Saturday, since

1. no one has asked me out on Friday nite, meaning I can sleep early..

2. alvin pushed the appointment to 3, freeing my Sat morning

but well... exercising with my parents requires careful finesse (at LEAST according to them), as my mum thinks I walk to fast, and vice versa... so well, we need to accomodate each other...

so they're smart... they wake up slightly earlier and TAKE A CAB rite to the island country club before calling me and telling me to come along...

-_-

meaning I dashed 3km from my house along the MacRitchie path only to see my parents refreshed and asking me whether I wanted to eat bread... BREAD?!? whilst we are exercising?...

(and well, there's something about me being in the jungle, particularly to places where I've navigated to before... it turns on that 'garang' mode in me and like I would find it ridiculous when people start thinking it is a picnic, complainly about the mosquitoes, weather and everything in general, and stopping every now and then to wipe sweat... I mean, such notions are COMPLETELY alien to a soldier in a jungle!)

whateva it is, we make our way to the start of the suspension bridge only to find a pretty long queue liao and we soon find ourselves queueing in front of a bunch of boisterous and loud girls from goodness knows which school, apparently here on a school outing.. -_-

which of course pisses me off to no end.

1. i have no problem with girls who are nice and demure (most girls are when they are pretty much alone or like in threes or pairs), but put a bunch of girls in the same class together, and you somehow get hell burnt over. They talk at the top of their voices, wildly gesticulate and like get completely floored over simple things... and all in the plain view of public...

a typical example of girls behaving badly...

Girl A: "HEY, did You watch so-and-so's play? It's good rite?"

Girl B: (wildly flaps her hand and stamps) OH MY GAWD! THE GUY'S A GENIUS.. HE'S SO DARN GOOD!!! OH MY GAWD HE'S LIKE JUST... I MEAN, HAVE YOU WATCHED BLAH BLAH BLAH... IT'S TO DIE FOR MAN!

Girl A: YAH! YAH!! OH MY GAWD.. IT'S LIKE..

-_-

2. They piss me off, cos they do the things I precisely think are ridiculous to do in the jungle... (ok maybe this reason is biased) They like sing all sorts of songs at the top of their voices like they're at some Girl Scouts Campfire Gathering, and just make the blasted amount of noise no matter where they are.. and of course, the worstis their giggling...and with that they say the STUPIDEST THINGS...

an example of girls saying the darndest things:-

GirL A: Aiyoh.. Why must we walk up the hill then walk down again? Why can't we just walk straight?

Girl B: (mutters something incoherent)

Girl A: Oh yah hor.. You'll be walking through earth, but why not dig a tunnel lah? Or walk round the hill?

-_-

I'd like to see HER do that on Bukit Biang man...

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ok... so basically, the gist is, i get pissed off and then a little frightened at the tree top walk, cos I suddenly realise..

I HAVE SOME FORM OF FEAR OF HEIGHTS


but hey.. it's quite manly to admit it lor i realise


just feeling slightly queasy and off whilst i was on the bridge and just hoping the people in front would move faster...

so well.. overall the journey was tiring and took quite long lah.. cos had to accomodate with mon's speed, and i WAS really pretty tired after the whole thing... so well, spent a fruitful morning i guess... =)

too tired to upload photos... will do so another time

frank

Saturday, March 12, 2005

the politics of gaming

am i too driven?

too competitive?

hmmm...cos when there was a huge ruckus between me and lin ken over me using my black lotus when I promised not too, and me insisting that it was due to desperation liao..

lin ken's bottomline? i flat out lied and i just refuse to lose...

my bottomline? what do you expect me to do when i specifically told lin ken not to attack me first? and what honestly do you expect me to do when i'm getting hammered by both alvin and lin ken's 4 particle cannons? sit there looking pretty and await the "You Have Been Defeated" screen?

play to lose? play to appease others since much emotions are invested into the game?

i dunno.. it's wierd... there's politics even involved in playing, sometimes you have to play not to win to make everyone happy?

but honestly... IT'S OVER AND DONE WITH.. it's honestly silly also, making a big hoo-ha about a game and just being very catty about it...

dunno whether we'll ever play again but well.. whatever lah.. as i realised with today's HSBC tree top walk, there are so many more things that can take your time...

but NOT watching lemony snicket.. it sucks

there were parts i just wanted to walk out cos it was moving too slow.

there were parts i just switched off my brain cos the plot was so darn dumb.

and there were parts when you wonder how such a stupid ending and conclusion to the mystery can befall on the show.

POOH... the only thing i was watching for was Violet.. and she isn't even very pretty.. -_- (and Weide would say i'm shallow again lah)

so.. DON'T BOTHER WATCHING LEMONY SNICKET

and well.. i actually wanted to ask Jack Jack to watch a movie tmr.. like maybe Hitch, cos Lin Ken thinks it's too low class for him and Edwin disses it cos it has Will Smith in it....

(yah.. and then they pull me to watch Lemony Snicket instead.. says LOTS about their movie taste)

but well.. knowing God, and knowing that Mum has already planned for us to eat lunch together tommorow, and then visit Grandad, even IF i asked, Jack Jack would probably not be free... so might as well not waste SMS..

rite God?

but Jack Jack, if u see this.. hehe.. and u coincidentally free.. hehe.. go watch? then you can lend me Rome : Total War as well..

-_-.. see how desperate i am? haha...

frank

Friday, March 11, 2005

htting the nail on its head

hehe... seems like Cpt Sima has a perceptively depreciating view of the whole BLOC course...cos when she overhears Michael telling me and Weide that he's going to bring back the "Underslung" precis to study, she laughs and comments,

"Haha.. So you're going to take the book home and bring it back on monday lah.."


=)

wise words of an experienced one man.. and talking about hitting the nail on its head.. cos i myself tried lugging back a few dusty precis to read at home, but yeah, they just collected some home dust... =)

so well... i suppose u can sortta understand the attitude most take towards bloc lah huh? a sort of vacationist attitude..

but well.. every vacation comes with its tortures.. like the PAINFULLY BORING lectures that we sometimes have to endure...

HONESTLY... if one ever wondered where boring dry whithered old men disappeared to, they probably just all went to the bloggies world

-_-

today's lecturer on Combat Intelligence was SO SO SO yawnsomely boring that i was scribbling on my note-pad and showing to Weide

"monotone, monosyllabic, monologue"
"Thank goodness he only has 1 hour."


I MEAN?! this guy just kept prattling on and on and on about objectives and enemy terraina dn whatsitnot, getting completely enraptured with himself and not realizing that half of the class is in la-la land liao.. and he didn't STOP at the 1 hour mark lor.. he just carried on and on and on for another 1/2 hour before he was finally wrestled off the stage...

-_-.. and he still ignorantly said,

"Oh.. if I had the chance I could talk to you all all day about this man... Next time must have 2 hour lesson at least"

IF... and that's if we allow you to man... and well.. good luck to the next batch lah... (wicked grin)

sometimes i wonder whether being nice and staying awake and pretending to be attentive is actually a good strategy... cos sometimes people skin darn thick, maybe need like half of the class to be snoring before he draws himself out of his own conversation and stops...

so the one thing i learnt at BLOC today?

how to feign an expression of interest and concentration even though you are just scribbling crap on your note pad =)

frank

death of a survivor fan...

pooh... survivor stinks big time.. i missed it for a succesive time after I realised that Kim was voted out... I mean, it sucks when the show has already been completely spoilt and we sorrta KNOW that Ulongs get thrashed....

and honestly, it is not fun watching a tribe get totally walloped and just goes down drowning... dunno what's it with some of those ardent fanatics who claim the character development is good and so on... oh my.. you might as well watch news lah..

and amazing race is turning into another disappointment... first cos Megan and Heidi got their pink butts kicked out of the show, and second, cos the route markers, roadblocks and stuff and DARN simple.. whereas last time it was akin to some clue-solving thingy, now the show has degraded to like a mindless dash to various locales and finding the box, doing some silly thing and then moving off again..

and yeah.. cos Rob and Amber polluted our screens yet again and got no. 1.. sheesh man...

so yeah.. how? interest waning liao.. my mom would think it's good.. oh well.. honestly i can't really be bothered liao =(

frANk

Thursday, March 10, 2005

realizations and the zen micro

*~ giggles ~*

i've got a zen micro liao! bought it at the IT show @ suntec on thurs... wow.. the crowds were huge, even as it was nearing closing time, and well, me and my mom had to jostle and squeeze past throngs of people just to get to the counter and squirm our way to inquire about stuff about the zen micro... but well.. hopefully it's a good buy lah =)

(not revealing the price in case people say got cheaper then my heart kena break)

aniwez.. realized a few things today:-

1. I dislike crowds like mad.

2. There are darn alot of obnoxious and rich kids around whom nonchalantly spend a few hundred bucks on a zen micro without batting an eyelid and then proceed to ponder whether they should just buy a few extra batteries together, since well,

"it's just 30 dollars and like i go out once and i spend the same amount liao"

BRATS... hmpf.. and that guy i'm referring to is a fat pig as well.. hmpf!

3. There are some people that i just love to bicker with.

4. I'm getting Kevin's disease of being inordinately snobbish towards things i honestly don't give two hoots about (like today's CWT visit)

5. Weide's pretty smart (even though he's darn irritating)... and his comments always seem to hit bulls-eye... (that's why he's irritating)

like when he said

"RJ people even lie when they discuss their answers to test"

BINGO... i confess, i do that sometimes as well (red-faced)...

6. Oakley glasses are disgustingly expensive (a fricking $500 odd bucks)... sigh, the price for vanity...

7. i can honestly be darn bitchy, sniping and acerbic at times...

8. reality tv starts sucking when your favourites don't do well...

oh well... that's all i have to say..

fraNK

Tuesday, March 08, 2005

blasting at the army...

hmmm.. some interesting comments in relation to the piss-poor performance of Ron and Kelly (the surprisingly plain beauty queen and her trophy POW boyfren... watch them implode man..)

"First of all he is in the Army not the Air Force. The AF pilots fly jets not helicopters. And secondly stupid people make better soldiers. They follow orders better than the smart people who always question why they need to do something a certain way. The stupid ones just do it."

"The American Military isnt filled with the smartest people you know. They are a bunch of morons that shoot at each other and their allies more then the enemy"

then the rebuttal..

"Wow how pathetic! I hope you people that are trashing the soldiers in our military aren't Americans. How very sad that you would degrade and put down someone who fought for your very freedom to speak openly without retribution. America may not be making all the correct decisions but its entirely out of line to disrespect someone of his standing you may not agree with the war but you never take it out on the soldiers who volunteered to protect you. Especially one that was captured and had to endure the shit he probably went through.

How disgraceful!!! "

and then the counterblast...

"The military in Iraq are out fighting for oil and Bush's ego, not for my freedom. It always amuses me when people tell me that soldiers are always fighting for my freedom when they aren't really and everyone knows it. "

hmm.. i particularly agree with the last comment...

have PEACE not war.. and especially NOT a war that goes searching for some nonentities like WMD...

frank

the trouble with soccer is...

SIGH... this is not good.. sometimes i wondered what i did wrong in JC or even sec school to get fat and yet never return thin, even though well, I was as spirited and as determined as most other people (as least i think =))

Well, today it hits me... the reason, is simply either that

(a)I do not like soccer and basketball
(b)I suck at soccer and basketball and hence do not like to play...

Wadeva it is.. i've always had this deep-seated unconfidence in playing these two games.. and well, always feel like people will after awhile know that I suck and like don't pass to me already so well, I just stand there and stone... =(

It's cos the rest of them are just so good lor, and honestly I'm like some blundering clumsy fool when it comes to such games that well, it kills the fun out of it lah... so well, the only time when I was actually inclined to play was with my BMT mates one fine night when we had nothing to do.. =)

WHY?

Cos it was just a few of us who knew we pretty much sucked equally bad at the game and hence, well, would like to play and exercise and well, laugh at each other's silly mistakes, like trying to dribble properly without losing the ball, and even just not hitting some air shots =)... i mean like i think like it was me, Sunny, Leow and a few others lah.. and we were laughng at each other's antics lah..and challenging each other to do DARN simple things like i duno dribbling through the feet? haha.. dunno...

oh well.. those were the times when it didn't matter if u sucked cos well, everyone as did so it's a free fest for all... sigh.. cos others just seem to be so naturale at the game and do so darn well... like its chicken-shit... so well.. wadeva lah

so how pple?! what should i do? honestly, someone advice me..

frank

Sunday, March 06, 2005

spanglish

speak some spanglish dude.

the lau ah-pek story

~* WARNING: gossip fest ahead...

ok.. here's a story of what transpired at church today.. and well.. disclaimer first, this is not meant to insult anyone in particular.. (unless of course you are that lau ah-pek, then you should be DARN ashamed of yourself), and well, the story does not represent the general feeling of the church, it is the author's own feelings.. (and DARN do i feel so)

okez.. so basically today, my sister's cell group did a short presentation about her cell group lah.. and then they came together and presented a hymn lah...(in which my sis' boyfren acted like a block of wood and ONLY opened his mouth a fraction at the most DUH part of the song..hehe... forget lyrics sia)

and well.. so my sis' bf's sister (who is pretty cute) gets up to take photos for them... and well.. while she does so, she unwittingly gets ZOOMED IN upon by this lau ah-pek sitting a few rows behind her, whom probably at this time is drooling at the site of so many young-ish girls singing as well as this girl who goes up to take pictures... so he hatches a devious plan... HEHE

rite after service, this wolfish ah-pek swiftly launches his attack rite on hapless bf's sister and says..

"HelLo MiSs, wHAt's YoUr SurNamE**? I aM Mr. sO and SO anD ArE yOu In ThE CelLGroUp aS WeLL? Can I JoiN?"*

*hmmm.. on second thoughts, THAT sounds like royston on his blog..whom incidently is a TERRIBLE PERSON FOR BETRAYING ME...

**and well if it sounds wierd, it's cos it's translated from chinese


so, caught off her guard, this hapless bf's sis musters a "Err.. Why not u ask the group leader", whilst jabbering at my sister's direction, before hastily retreating to safety...

which of course, brings the problem to my sis -_-, as the lasvicious lau ah-pek's eyes glint as he sees my sis (not knowing she's attached)..

**********


so whilst the whole bunch of us, youthful, riotous and all, proceed happily to the kopi-tiam to have our normal breakfast, he swiftly launches his second attack, this time onto my sis... asking her,

"HEy MisS, I'm InTerEsTed in JoinINg Your CelL GrouP.. Can WE tALk abOut The DetaIls throUgh BreakFast?"

wah.. this man is darn cheap sia, first strike and he already attempts to get a breakfast date liao.. and without even confirming if the girl is attached.. bu yao lian!

so my sis eyes this man and feels decidedly uncomfortable at his attempt to foist his company onto her and wonders what the heck this man is thinking of by trying to joining her cell group..

i mean... OPEN YOUR EYES MR... can't you see from the photos as well as the people who came up to sing, that their mean age is like 26+?

and that the group is specifically for "young adults who have worked for not too long only"?

i mean i dun even need to look close at his face to see whether there are wrinkles or whatever, cos his hair is like grey with streaks of white here and there, and his ah-pek clothes just scream 40+.... (LOOK, i'm NOT being ageist)

and yet, he attempts to act youthful and continues to force his company onto my sis. Well, since she honestly does not know too much about him yet and since we as Christians are supposed to welcome anyone who has an interest in Christianity, she courteously invites him to our breakfast table to talk a little more...

he OF COURSE jumps at the invitation and proceeds jovially to our table, and honestly acts like he's completely at home with us all around him and puts up this swaggering, confident poise (i suppose in attempt to impress the girls) whilst dragging chairs to the table and ordering drinks.. He feels he's like "IN DA CROWD" and has known us for many years... (not realizing his white hair gives him away from a mile)

the girls on our table promptly lose their appetites, and my sis gets desperate. Then she spies on a hapless guy from her cell group (let's call him WH).. AND pleads him to sit with this lau ah-pek and separate the wolf from the girls...

SO this TRULY SCAPEGOATED WH.. (whom honestly should win a medal of commendation) gamely accepts his fate and goes to talk to this guy, whilst another of the girls from our table is called off to talk to one of the seniors of the church...

apparently, this senior tells her that this ah-pek has been flitting around cell groups in attempt to find a girl-friend to ensnare himself onto.. so.. beware..

this promptly turns all the girls off him, wiping away any vestige of goodwill and courteousness that they had for him initially...

and this lau ah-pek really knows no shame, and when he is going to pay for the drink he ordered and spies on another girl reaching for her wallet to pay for her own, he asks sweetly,

"U paYing fOr me iSsit?"
.
.
-_- x 200000....

so really, breakfast was pretty much ruined and the girls promptly parried off his repeated attacks, by sandwiching him between guys after that... hmm.. so much for church...

******


SO... honestly, if after reading this, u feeling darn indignant and am wondering what kind of christians we are, so darn unfriendly and gossipy, then THINK AGAIN..

1. I'm indignant at the fact that this guy has the wrong motives in trying to join cell group. HELLO? If you need a dating agency, I'm sure Hao Meili has many good recommendations, but cell group is NOT dating agency. To make use of a Christian's niceness and welcomeness to try to get close to girls is TRULY despicable TO THE MAX.

2. This guy honestly doesn't know his age... either that or he doesn't GET IT. WHAT THE HECK do you think your chances are if you are a 40 year old person who just crashes into a 20+ yr old breakfast group and just blatantly forces your company onto us?

ZILCH.

Even in a normal social context, this would be downright ODD... so really, what WERE you thinking?

3. It's not like at first we already darn hostile or what but well, after hearing the various accounts and stories, and piecing the pieces together, so sorrta catch on onto his plan, and well.. it disgusts you.

4. If you think I'm a downright gossipy and terrible person, then well, I apologize.. but really.. if u DID laugh, then dun act so righteous lah... i remove names liao, and dun think the ah-pek would read, so well... no harm done k? And i'll take all the insults if u think I'm too gossipy or whatever...


so there...
frAnK

Saturday, March 05, 2005

what i need to do

1. learn to drive
2. research on the unis in us...

cos honestly it's geeting to the point of ad nauseaum when i keep hearing people ask me about my uni and i shrug it off by saying i haven't applied...

"HARRH?" they exclaim, then proceed to stare at me incredulously, like i'm totally an indecisive person who hasn't lifted his butt to do any research or wadeva...

and well.. even my mum's starting to bug me about the school to apply to and well, she tried to get me to go to the US unis seminar @ Suntec City... but HEY... it's not my year liao... it's for those bubbly, excited, full-of-hope 'A' level students whom just recently got their results and in order to celebrate, completely flood all the lan shops..

-_-.. gee thanks.. GO TO THE SEMINAR LAH! IT'S YOUR FUTURE @ STAKE LEH! STILL PLAY LAN FOR WHAT!!?

so well... jokes aside, maybe i should really listen to my own advice and well.. starting researching and pondering about what to take in uni liao... which honestly.. IS pretty difficult..

sigh.. should i choose a school by its facilities/qualities or by its prestige or by the courses?

what the HECK should i take? engineering? biology? design? BLEAH~*

when i honestly pretty much like lots of subjects... it gets very hard...

double major? maybe.. Biomedical engineering and Law with a minor in Design? HAHAHA
that combo would kill man...

OH WADEVA.. going to sleep for church tmr liao..

frank

the malaise named bloggerism

SO, mr royston says i have "bloggerism"... or the excessive desire to need to blog everyday for at least 3 times or more...for what? I can't figure...

and yeah.. that sent me pretty much into a fit of indignance and irritation but well... so much for that... now i have another blogger's block...


-_-.... what the heck


wadeva it is... find it quite hard to write.. my life's getting so utterly boring as what I do has denigrated to:

a. trying to siam telephone calls from my battalion.. noeing it could not possibly be any good news... (i mean, planning DO duty for me whilst i am on course!? Gee.. HOW smart)

b. fiddling with the computer trying to decipher what the heck of a pathetic work system this ICS2 is... and i NEED to.. cos i'll be the one handling all these stuff.... but guess what? I'm in the wrong course... (thanks to none other then.. eh-hm).. and well, since S4s dun really need to noe this shit of a program, well, the instructors could hardly care less... and what we get are two days of dubious crap thrown at our faces and many assurances that "you all wouldn't really be needing these things, just leave it to the QM... it's just for you all to know... =)"...

gee... err.. I AM the QM?? and well.. i'm getting desperate.

think it'll get worse once we enter the Ops phase of the course where the relevance to the QM drops to like 10%? HOW SMART... honestly, i feel like i'm burrowing myself a burial site that's gonna be fresh and ready for me to fall flat into once i get back to my battalion...

and of course i have to be stupid enough to forget my 11B password and get locked out... -_-

so it's most likely many many piles of shit waiting for me when i return...

c. doing insanely stupid tests that honestly HONESTLY insult your intelligence...

I MEAN? look at this question:


----Match the follow STATUS TERMS with the correct explanation---
a. New Line Item
b. Pending Approval
c. Pending Receipt

1. Line item is awaiting approval.
2. A new line item request has been created
3. Line item is awaiting acknowledgement of receipt.


-_- x 10000

WHAT THE?? Honestly do u think we are retarded?!? and get this, this kind of question doesn't just appear ONCE, it appears almost for EVERY SINGLE module (there are 10 in total) of the system that we are tested on...

so whoever said no one can fail SAF tests... here's another avidence for ya'

~rolls eyes~*

so there... weeks are passing by too fast for my liking... but well.. as i told one of my colleagues in SOL, these 6 weeks are like a vacation from NS... =)

just that every vacation has to end.

and mine seems to end in a pile of shit. =(

OH WELL.

reGrds,
a sick and coughing frank

p.s.: i STILL suck at DOTA... sigh... to lose 3 vs 1 is honestly pretty pathetic.. bleah!

Friday, March 04, 2005

slap him, he's french!

OWN UP... who's the person who babel-fished my french comments and posted them on my tag-board... get this clear... i do it so that people who have nothing better to do and just drop by my blog wouldn't be too bothered to find out what it is... well... apparently there ARE actually incredibly nosy people, whom after finding out what the message mean, can go up another notch of boh-liaoness and publish it on my blog...

NA-DAH... SCREW U... forgot who the moderator is issit? hehe...

but honestly... its irritating k? keep your stinky nose outta this!